Loramendi & Aurrenak lead the superior solutions of the foundry industry, such as the world's largest core making machines and tooling for the production of the world's largest cores. With over five decades of experience, their large projects define Loramendi & Aurrenak Group as pioneers in creating the largest machines, setting the record straight - bigger may be better, but when it comes to excellence,…

Kurtz KPS 2000/25-12 SKT trimming press goes USA For two years now, Kurtz GmbH has had the largest and fastest trimming press on the market, the KPS 2000/25-12 SKT, already being used successfully by a range of customers. Of course the development of the Kurtz press has not stood still in the two years since its launch. Rather, the KPS 2000/25-12 SKT has been expanded to include further highlights. All…

Sales of the innovative 18-metre electric bus started back in April this year The two electric central motors and two driven axles improve driving stability and thus safety Both the new articulated bus and the solo bus variant impress with a reliable range of 200 km (and up to 270 km in favourable conditions) over the entire service life of the battery As part of its e-mobility roadmap, MAN Truck & Bus is…

The structural change from combustion engines to e-mobility as well as the growing expansion of the Chinese automotive industry that has identified Latin America as a manufacturing and expanding market, lead to an investment race in the region. The winners of this development are especially long-established manufacturing locations like Mexico, one of Latin America’s automobile production countries. Mexico…

GF Casting Solutions builds upon its expertise in bionic design to achieve even more weight reduction for its cast components. For commercial vehicles, this is a real challenge especially because of the tremendous forces that are exerted on the components. GF's bionic wheel hub shows that it is still possible to reduce weight by 13%. "With bionic design, we have found a way how we can design sophisticated…

Petrofer has been successful in developing water miscible dielubes with wide reaching resistance against microbial attack. This means not only a good stability against growth of bacteria, but also against the growing of yeast and fungi. The latter is especially important when the die lube is applied in a centralised system. Fungi fibres in such a system can easily block filters, sieves and nozzles. In the…

Ductile and Gray iron foundry located in the north of Mexico (Monterrey Area) just two hours from the USA Texas Border. Blackhawk is currently producing castings between 2 kgs (5 lbs) and 90 kgs (200 lbs) mainly for the heavy truck and agriculture markets. It has an installed capacity of 25,000 metric tons per year using coreless induction melting and three green sand match-plate molding machines. It also…